Word: clamoring
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...Associate Justice Black hoped by ending his discussion of his membership in the Klan last week to end the U. S. discussion of it, he was sorely disappointed. What followed his speech was a clamor fully matching the uproar that had preceded it. Except in the South newspapers almost without exception found it totally unsatisfactory...
Having been routed from the advertising business by the surpassing eagerness of industries to become his clients, and from the aviation industry by the clamor which attended several deals attributed to him, Son Roosevelt has lately been more or less quietly employed as vice-president of Hearst Radio, Inc. in charge of its four southwest stations in Texas and Oklahoma. In addition he is president of Hearst-owned KTSA Broadcasting Co. in San Antonio. Reputedly drawing down $10,000 a year, he has lived in Fort Worth, home town of his present wife, the onetime Ruth Googins. Last June...
...from a lunchroom started in 1889 on Manhattan's Cortlandt Street by Brothers Samuel and William Childs with $1,600 capital. Farm boys from Bernardsville. N. J., the Childs Boys, irked by eating in dirty hash-houses, decided to offer the public something cheap and clean. While public clamor for sanitary improvement was building up to the Pure Food & Drugs Act in 1906, Childs restaurants mushroomed, their slogan "The Nation's Host from Coast to Coast," their symbol a pretty girl making wheat-cakes in the window...
...Zorach and against Ronnebeck, the Municipal Art Commission stuck to its guns for a while in the face of clamor by the trustees, the committee and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton that Denver should have Ronnebeck or nothing. Leader of the Commission was fiftyish Anne Evans, weathered, spirited daughter of the first territorial governor of Colorado, patron of the summer theatre festival at Central City (TIME, July 26). Less exacting Commissioners began to waver when local ar- chitects declared that the Zorach memorial would not fit into Denver's $1,000,000 Civic Center. Then Mayor Stapleton dismissed...
...offered for approval by a plebiscite, they wrote a clause specifically withholding suffrage from women. Thus, if the women voted Yes in the plebiscite, they would be voting to disenfranchise themselves; if they voted No, they would be voting against freedom for the Philippines. Setting up a loud clamor, they finally got a clause inserted that would restore suffrage to literate women of 21 or over if they could muster 300,000 affirmative votes at a plebiscite within two years after the Constitution was adopted...